Native American Heritage Month Programming on SDPB

Blood Memory follows the journey of Sandy White Hawk, a Sicangu Lakota adoptee from the Rosebud Reservation, including the first gathering for Adopted and Fostered Relatives of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Featuring Jerry Dearly’s (Oglala Lakota) “Song for Adoptees,” as well as Lynn Castaway Eagle Feather, Marlies White Hat, Conrad Eagle Feather, Archie Little, (Sicangu Lakota), and Senator James Abourezk, who passed several laws boosting tribal sovereignty. SDPB2: Tuesday, November 9, 7 & 11pm (6 & 10 MT) & Sunday, November 14, 4pm (3 MT)

In the rugged canyon lands of Northern Arizona, Navajo and Hopi cross-country runners from two rival high schools put it all on the line for tribal pride, triumph over personal adversity, and state championship glory. Win or lose, what they learn during their seasons will have a dramatic effect on the rest of their lives. Focusing on five teens living on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, Racing the Rez unfolds over two years of careful, patient observation, and offers a rare view into the surprising complexity and diversity of contemporary reservation life. SDPB2: Saturday, November 27, 6pm (5 MT)

Unspoken: America’s Native American Boarding Schools takes a moving and insightful look into the history, operation, and legacy of the federal Indian Boarding School system, whose goal was total assimilation of Native Americans at the cost of stripping away Native culture, tradition, and language. SDPB2: Tuesday, November 9, 8pm & Midnight (7 & 11 MT)

Explore the historic art of horse regalia and how the tradition is being revived and reinterpreted by Dakota communities for a new generation. The Horse Relative looks at the efforts of artists, educators and community leaders to preserve and restore the Dakota language, cultural traditions and lifeways. Beyond chronicling how the Dakota people of Minnesota are working to keep their cultural identity thriving, the film also details a story of migration, following the difficult path Native people and their horse relatives traversed as foreigners settled the surrounding lands. SDPB1: Monday, November 22, 7pm & Midnight (6 & 11 MT)

The Good Road offers a raw, insider look at the complex business of global charity. In this series, hosts Earl Bridges and Craig Martin – longtime philanthropy veterans, globetrotters and best friends – trek around the world to meet people who are making a difference. As they explore familiar places like Alabama and foreign destinations like Thailand and Tanzania, the hosts discover the limitless power of good. In each episode, viewers learn how community, culture and compassion intersect as people overcome some of the world’s greatest challenges. SDPB2: Mondays through Nov. 22, 8pm (6 MT), Fridays, 1pm (Noon MT)

In 2017, a delegation of Northern Arapaho tribal members traveled from Wyoming to Pennsylvania to retrieve remains of three children who died at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the 1880s. Independent Lens Home From School: The Children of Carlisle dives into the history of the flagship federal boarding school and chronicles the modern-day journey of tribal members who seek to recover what remains of the Arapaho children more than 100 years after they perished. In a quest to heal generational wounds, the Northern Arapaho forge the way for other tribes to follow. SDPB1: Tuesday, November 23, 10pm (9 MT) SDPB2: Wednesday, November 24, 6 & 11pm (5 & 10 MT) & Saturday, November 27, Noon (11 MT)

Independent Lens Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World traces the melodies, rhythms, and beats of traditional Native music as they took different forms across the spectrum of 20th-century American rock. Native Americans such as Robbie Robertson and Buffy Sainte-Marie helped to define its evolution, while Native guitarists and drummers such as Link Wray, Hall of Famer Jimi Hendrix, who was part- Cherokee, Jesse Ed Davis, and many more forever changed the trajectory of rock and roll. Their stories are told by some of America’s greatest rock legends who knew them and were inspired by them, including Slash, Jackson Browne, Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett, Iggy Pop, Steven Tyler and many more. SDPB2: Friday, November 26, 7:30pm (6:30 MT)

During World War I, not all Native Americans were even citizens of the United States, let alone eligible to be drafted. Yet, more than 12,000 indigenous men volunteered. Even in Vietnam, an unpopular war, 90 percent of the 42,000 Native people who served were volunteers. Why would Native men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands? The Warrior Tradition tells the inspiring, complicated stories of Native American warriors from their own points of view – stories of service and pain, of courage and fear. SDPB2: Monday, November 8, 7pm & Midnight (6 & 11 MT)

See new and updated content on tribal nations in South Dakota from SDPB’s trusted Education Department at: sdpb.org/learn/nativeamerican